Dear Class of 2025/26,
First and foremost, congratulations and welcome to the LUMS family! I hope this milestone in your life serves as a reminder to your dedication and incredible persistence, especially given the trying circumstances of the past 2 years. We are all so incredibly proud of you and can’t wait to welcome you all to campus!
My name is Amna Mahmood, I am a rising junior (how did this happen) at SDSB pursuing a major in Management Science. Moreover, over the past 2 years I have been exploring my love for all things data-related which has led me to aim for a CS minor. Apart from academics, I have also been actively involved with AIESEC in LUMS and DanceLUMS.
Bad news: Transitioning into campus life will most definitely accompany a series of challenges (likely coupled with homesickness for my fellow hostelites L)
Good news: At LUMS, you are never truly alone. As your peer ambassadors, we will ensure that things fall perfectly into place and that you learn from our experiences/mistakes. No matter what the highs and lows you encounter, we will provide you with all the support you need to develop as an inspiring individual.
Speaking from experience, your next 4 years will be characterized by opportunity, diversity, and intellectual agility. LUMS will change you and, my advice would be, you should let it. If you do so - you will discover yourself enjoying interests you had never heard of before and befriending incredible people from places you never knew existed. Apply for every opportunity that excites you, seek out conversations with students and professors (I promise they are not as scary as you think they are), join societies, form societies, scour library shelves, enroll in classes with bizarre names, drop classes that do not spark your interest and, most of all, step out of your comfort zone. This is not to tell you what your LUMS experience will be like; but to give you an idea that it can be everything that you choose to make out of it.
Welcome to LUMS. Welcome home.